servesomeonethesamesauce (third-person singular simple presentserves someone the same sauce,present participleserving someone the same sauce,simple past and past participleserved someone the same sauce)

1. Totreat in the same way, especially asretaliation.
   • 1912, London Athenian Society,Aristophanes: The Eleven Comedies,Plutus:

     Zeus wants toserve you all with the same sauce and hurl the lot of you into the Barathrum.

• “sauce”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

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